Statin use following hospitalization among Medicare beneficiaries with a secondary discharge diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Yun, Huifeng ^a   Safford, Monika M ^a   Brown, Todd M ^a   Farkouh, Michael E ^a   Kent, Shia ^a   Sharma, Pradeep ^a   Kilgore, Meredith ^a   Bittner, Vera ^a   Rosenson, Robert S ^a   Delzell, Elizabeth ^a   Muntner, Paul ^b   Levitan, Emily B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; hospitalization; Medicare; myocardial infarction; statins

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; REHABILITATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; MALE; MEDICARE; MEDICARE PART D; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85005929950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.114.001208     Document Type: Article

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